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The 15 Coolest Weapons Born From Sci-Fi CinemaThe 15 Coolest Weapons Born From Sci-Fi Cinema November 17 2009 While spending most of the past weekend sick in bed, I took in my daily dose of fluids, vitamins and viewings of various DVDs I have here at the house. My usual comedic selections weren't doing it for me and instead I began to ...
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Makers - Cory Doctorow - BooksReviewers may be tempted to spend their time adding to this story rather than summarizing, so will keep this brief. The good news is that industrial society survives the recession and becomes social industry. The right 4 people (times 10 to the nth) of the status quo, however, do not go down ...
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Mad scientists blame time travelers for collider failure | DVICEIt was weird enough that scientists said a bird dropping a piece of bread on an electrical substation managed to shut down power to the Large Hadron Collider. Now two respected physicists are blaming that incident on a time-traveling bird, sabotaging the collider's mission of finding the Higgs ...
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What would George Orwell think of Google Dashboard? | DVICEThanks to Google, most people know who Eric Arthur Blair is. Doesn't ring a bell? You might know him better by his pen name, George Orwell. You know — 1984, Animal Farm? The question is, if he were alive today, what would he think of Google, and its power to spread information — sometimes very ...
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Sci-fi illustrations by Shusei Nagaoka ::: Pink TentacleIn the 1970s and 1980s, the sci-fi art of Japanese illustrator Shusei Nagaoka graced numerous album covers and appeared in a variety of advertisements, magazines, and movie posters. Here is a small sample of his fantastic work.
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4 reasons why V's motherships don't make sense | DVICE4 reasons why V's motherships don't make sense So ABC's V is here (episode 2 airs tonight), reminding us for the zillionth time that gigantic, mile(s)-wide flying saucers are THE conveyance of choice for any kind of alien visitors. (See: District 9, Independence Day, the original V, Alien ...
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Props From Duncan Jones' Moon Film Up on eBayProps From Duncan Jones' Moon Film Up on eBay November 10 2009 The Prop Store of London , "one of the world's leading vendors of movie props and costumes", has just launched several eBay listings for props and memorabilia from the scifi film, Moon . Not surprisingly, many ...
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A Scaled Replica of Kaneda's Sweet Ride From AkiraA Scaled Replica of Kaneda's Sweet Ride From Akira November 6 2009 Any true anime fan should be able to recognize this iconic vehicle from both the Manga series and scifi film, Akira . This super-cool custom bike is the preferred mode of transportation for Shotaro Kaneda, leader of The ...
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Device like ‘Star Trek’ replicator is in the works - Space.com- msnbc.comSpace explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of "Star Trek" to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future astronauts to create critical spare parts ...
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William Gibson Reads NeuromancerIf you're a fan of William Gibson I hope that others will mirror these files as well so that they will never be lost. This reading was published on four magnetic tape audio cassetts. These have been re-recorded in MP3 format: Neuromancer (abridged) read by William Gibson
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